Research Methods

Catalog description

This course involves students applying learned skills to solve real-world problem as they work through a project in a guided/mentored environment. Appropriate projects and problems for this course are those with sufficient intellectual content to be stimulating and challenging to the student. The projects give students experience with scientific research, including scientific problem solving, writing, and presentation. Projects will be designed to solve an original research problem that will include all aspects of problem solving from project planning to communication of the results. Projects will involve between 39-156 hours of work. Projects are developed by the student and the thesis advisor and must be approved by department faculty. In cases where the project crosses semester boundaries, the student registers and receives a grade in the semester that the project is completed.